Hi Indi, all...I had the opportunity to study law, 2002 - 2006 at the then Northern Territory Uni aka Charles Darwin Uni. In the years I attended, there would be less than a handful of fellow students who now still practice that I would consider as 'reasonable human beings'...the rest as you allude, are nothing more than BMW driving scum who fleece, misrepresent and generally have no compassion for fellow human beings. All the while purporting to be "acting in the best interests of their client(s)".

Regarding the boatpeople, irregular immigrants, people "smugglees" and whatever they are politically correctly referred to today, I can say only this, I would do the same if I was in the same situation.

But Indi, the government is lying about boats being stopped. Why then is a brand new, 3,500 bed detention centre being built at Mokerang -(Manus Island)? There were recent adverts in papers all around OZ looking for plant operators and steel fixers to go there. As were adverts placed for "guards".

The recent High Court decision has now made it all the more palatable in the eyes of Herr Fuhrer.

If the current lack of manpower for manning foot patrols by NORFORCE could be solved, then I'm sure the actual numbers of intercepts would be higher, viz a viz "more boats arriving" - if you get my drift? There are far more actual illegal arrivals at our airports...but wait theres's no piteous, half drowned babies clinging to flotsam off the Red Rooster counter there at Tullamarine airport though...no nasty Chief Petty Officers pointing F88 & 9MM Brownings at someone to get them to burn their hands on an exhaust muffler...so no headlines!

Having said that I would do the same if in the same position, I would also accept that in doing so I run the risks experienced by said refugees. The other side of the coin is the electronic whorehouse and their disinformation campaign at the behest of the government (both Labor and Liberal).

WE ARE BEING LIED TO on so many levels !

Individual, (sorry again for cut n paste - it helps with limited time online) this is a post from 2006 below...

Perhaps we may have forgotten that the incumbent Liberals hold a Senate 'majority' - this in itself is a powerful tool with which to legislate, (all too often without a proper 'debate' as such).

In the dead of night bills get their second readings, get the nod and pass on into law, meanwhile human rights (with monotonous regularity) are shelved, negated and disregarded in the process.

With the lamented loss of an effective 'opposition' we see the forgone conclusions enacted on a daily basis.

Remembering Ben Franklins famous words: "Those who would give up essential liberty to gain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

The greatest lie is the one of Australian 'democracy', perpetuated, fostered, and touted since Federation. We are a Monarchic - autocratic society, the senate majority exercised by Howard's Fascists is living testament to it.

Wake Up Australia - Land of the Anal Ostriches. Heads firmly planted in our fundamental orifices - oblivious to all but Murdoch, Packer and Fox realpolitik. Swallowing the mac Donald's line of political correctness, a craft devoid of helmsmen, a ship about to broach upon the reef of regional appeasement.

Well may we say "god save the queens", because the lavender mafia, feminazis and assorted buffoons have not come up with plausible answers thus far, and God help us when the day of reckoning is knocking at the door. Your politically myopic, single view perspectives are our greatest undoing.

Emigrate and give it all back to the kangaroos I say!

Posted by Albie Manton in Darwin, Wednesday, 28 June 2006 7:16:13 PM

everyone has a moral obligation to save others in distress.
Is Mise,
Of course & we do help when we can, I thought that was well known. But nowhere does it say we have to fork out millions because we had no hope of helping in those dreadful conditions.
Unless of course you'd have sent your son into the raging waters with the risk of losing him as well ? Come to think of we should sue you for not having your son at the ready to help these poor people. Why wasn't he there to offer assistance ? Because you failed to send him, it's all your fault, now pay up !

A lot of those "so called" poor people are ex terrorists and insurgents who have been displaced. They then get on boats and try to come over here. Morrison has put these scumbag refugees in their place. More power to our PM. He's protecting us.

If, as has been alleged, there were lifeboats there for the purpose of rescue then they should have been serviceable. Could have been Australian fishermen who were in distress.

The origins/religion/politics of those in need of assistance is immaterial.

The origins/religion/politics of those in need of assistance is immaterial.
is Mise,
No offence but this is just ignorant do-gooder blathering. The reality of it is that it was very rough seas, dangerous & from what footage I saw it was impossible to assist in that situation.
As for the people who perished & that they could have been Australian ? So what ? If you're unable to assist, you're unable to assist no matter who is in distress ! To try & make ideological mileage out of a tragedy is a tragedy in itself, the tragedy of the connivery of parasitic Australians who do not deserve to be called Australian. Scum is the correct term.
Decent Australians die in accidents in their jobs but no-one sticks their head up to compensate their families.
Go & let your boat get wrecked off the coast in the middle east & see how much aid comes your way. Start discovering reality.